“The GOAT podcast and the reason that Tenderfoot TV exists. Serial laid the foundation for narrative nonfiction audio storytelling in a limited series—and it launched the true crime craze in audio, specifically with investigative series. Serial is the reason my partner, Payne Lindsey, decided to make our Up and Vanished a podcast.”

- Donald Albright, CEO and Co-Founder - Tenderfoot TV

Serial exploded the boundaries of podcasting with a rigor and suspense more often reserved for prestige television or true crime cinema. In its first season, Sarah Koenig’s investigation into the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee becomes both procedural and philosophical—unfolding like a Rashomon of memory, bias, and the elusiveness of truth. Formally elegant and structurally addictive, Serial marries journalistic depth with narrative propulsion, interrogating not just a case, but the very mechanics of justice and storytelling. As a cultural phenomenon, it redefined audio narrative; as a work, it endures—a serialized essay on doubt, trust, and the limits of certainty.